Lake of the Clouds Hut.
Hi Julie!
View from Mt. Washington.
Carter Notch Hut.
We've been seeing lots of tea colored streams. Tasty.
Moose Pelvis.
Yeah! Layin' down a patch. I love Maine.
Hiker cuisine. Dipping the pb with the Snickers.
Rangely Lake.
This is some sort of alpine Mt. Laurel I guess. I haven't seen Laurel in over a month.
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I think you're in exactly the right environment for poutine. Poutine! :) And I also love it that you saw GI Joe with the guys from TX. :)
Cheers,
Jon
Great shots and stories as usual. You're are really getting into a different ecosystem now. Technically you're in the "boreal forest" or spruce-fir forest, sometimes referred to as the spruce-moose biome. I hope that Spruce Grouse didn't attack you. They say that you can sometimes walk up and almost pick them up. Great Gray Jay shot too. You have probably seen them in Washington. It's amazing that there are enough hikers who feed them their precious food to have them display that behavior.
The laurel is probably Bog Laurel (Kalmia polifolia). I don't know that I have ever seen that. The plant with the bunch of red berries is called bunchberry, interestingly enough. It's a tiny dogwood. I liked the moose pelvis but did you notice the nice lycopodium growing beside it. You probably are seeing a lot of that. Some of my favorite plants. They used the spores from those things for flash powder at one point in time. I have no idea what the yellow flower is ... looks sort of like some kind of Hypericum ... St. Johns Wort.
Look forward to seeing you soon and the other pix as well.
Stay warm.
Dad
This reminds me how much I like reading Dad's comments as well. When are you going to go hike for a week, Dad? Personally, I'm pretty sold on the spruce-moose biome. It looks entirely lovely, and I'm sad we won't have more time to spend when we're there.
Yay, Maine!
-Celia
Hi Ryan! Your photos are AMAZING> must go hike in Maine. Your 'laurel' is actually Kalmia - a plant I studied in Alaska! Also saw bunchberry in there and a few others I know how to grow. Give me a ring when you get back to Virginia! - jules
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